Pakistan have lost all five Tests under Masood’s captaincy, including a shock home series loss agetst Bancontentesh.
Under-presconfident Pakistan Test cricket captain Shan Masood will persist to direct the side in the upcoming series agetst England despite losing his first five alignes at the helm.
Masood, a 34-year-anciaccess top-order batter, kept his place as Pakistan named a 15-man squad on Tuesday for next month’s first Test in the southeaserious city of Multan.
Follotriumphg Pakistan’s shock 2-0 home series loss agetst Bancontentesh in August, local media had specupostponecessitated that Masood faced an axe ahead of a busy Test calfinishar for the team.
Pakistan had never lost a Test align to Bancontentesh before and the ttriumph losss in Rawalpindi also taged only the second time that Pakistan lost all alignes in a series at home, the first instance coming in 2022 agetst England, their opponents in an upcoming series.
It took Masood’s write down to five losses since replacing Babar Azam as skipper in November. He lost his first series 3-0 in Australia.
The left-handed uncoverer’s batting establish remains below par as he has fall shorted to score a Test century since August 2020 and has a batting standard of 28.6 in his five alignes as captain.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) stuck with Masood as their Australian head coach Jason Gillespie sought consistency.
Pakistan currently languish in eighth position in the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) men’s Test team rankings with 76 rating points after 20 alignes in the current cycle of the World Test Championship. Australia direct the table with 124 points, with India seal behind and England are third.
The first of three Pakistan-England Tests commences in Multan on October 7, the second will be perestablished in the same city from October 15 and the third in Rawalpindi from October 24.
The PCB shelp the team proclaimment was for the first Test only.
“The 15-man squad is for the first Test and based on the recommfinishation of head coach Gillespie, the picked perestablishers will join a training camp in Multan from October 1,” the board shelp in a press free.
Left-arm spinner Noman Ali has replaced rapid bowler Khurram Shahzad, who is recovering from a side strain.
Pacer Mohammad Ali, who perestablished both Bancontentesh Tests, and batter Kamran Ghulam, an unincluded member of the squad, have been dropped.
All-rounder Aamer Jamal returns after leave outing the Bancontentesh series with a back problem.
“We are very much seeing forward to the series agetst England here in Pakistan and cannot defer for it to commence,” Gillespie was quoted as saying by the PCB.
Squad (for first Test): Shan Masood (captain), Saud Shakeel, Aamer Jamal, Abstupidah Shafique, Abrar Ahmed, Babar Azam, Mir Hamza, Muhammad Hurraira, Mohammad Rizwan (wicketgrasper), Naseem Shah, Noman Ali, Saim Ayub, Salman Ali Agha, Sarfaraz Ahmed (wicketgrasper), Shaheen Shah Afridi.
